Mukesh Corrupted State Counsel in “Gas” case

Mukesh Corrupted State Counsel in “Gas” case



This case was between Mukesh as gas producer and Anil & NTPC as gas consumers for power generation but the crook made ministry of petroleum run by Coolie of Dhiru as party to the case.



Clearly regulatory norms in India are based on “Cost Plus Reasonable Profit” basis.



But four years Mukesh Ambani through his Coolie wants market price for the gas which is a national property or rather Andhra Pradesh property.



He is hoarding gas when load factor of Gas Power stations of 15,000 MW is 58% which for July2008 was only 51%.



Ravinder Singh

August30, 2008



Power min, NTPC disown govt counsel statement

Prabhakar Sinha | TNN August30, 2008 P-21


New Delhi : Power ministry and NTPC have moved in to nip any perception that government has relaxed its insistence for cheaper natural gas from Reliance for the NTPC power plants, in a move which will have repercussions also for feud between Amabani siblings over gas.


Reacting sharply to the surprise statement by the counsel of the ministry of petroleum and natural gas TS Doabia where he concurred with RIL's stand that it had no contractual obligation to supply gas to NTPC, the power ministry and the NTPC have both said that deposition was unauthorised, did not represent the stand of the government.


Contesting the interjection of Doabia, NTPC chief in a letter to the power ministry said, "It is most surprising and entirely inexplicable that a senior counsel appearing for the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has made a gratuitous and uncalled for statement with regard to the merit of NTPC's case against Reliance Industries when the ministry of petroleum and natural gas is not a party and is in no way concerned with the said suit.''


The protest has bee endorsed by the power ministry with its secretary, Anil Razdan taking up the matter with the Prime Minister's Office, ministry of petroleum and natural gas as well as Dobias' appointing authority, ministry of law and justice.


Razdaan is learnt to have stressed the need to ensure that the "rights of NTPC are protected and the case presented accordingly. "


In the case over the pricing of the Reliance gas. The power secretary is learnt to have recalled the arguments made by Solicitor General G E Vahanvati in the case earlier. The Solicitor General, it may be recalled, had argued that NTPC, as per its contract with RIL, was entitled to get gas from the private sector giant at concessional rates.


The NTPC has given contract to supply gas for its two power plants of 1,400 MW each in Gujarat in 2004 to RIL. But, later when the gas price went up, RIL reversed its gears, refusing to sign the contract to supply the gas to the said power projects.